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Publisher’s Note
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elcome to the third annual edition of the GIR(L) Directory. The annual GIR(L) directory is a product of Allen-Branca Media Company, Inc and has been put together as a resource guide for our regular GIR(L) Magazine readers.
Shelly Allen
“There is no security in life... only opportunity!” - Douglas MacAurthor
Inside you will find businesses that understand the immense buying power of the female population and are clamoring to gain your business. You’ll also find important dates, phone numbers, events, and South Florida happenings all year long. We’ve also included a very important document that most of us know about, but few have read recently. We have included it because at this pivotal time in our nation’s history, it is important that we never forget from where we came. It is our hope that you will keep this directory all year and use it as a reference, as well as patronize the advertisers who made this directory possible. Grab two and keep one in your car and one in your home! As always, don’t forget to check out every issue of GIR(L) Magazine for a look at the most eye opening content made available to the ladies of South Florida. We sincerely thank you for being a loyal GIR(L) and we wish you much success all year through!
Jackie Branca
Here’s to a great year!
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“Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say, ‘What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!’
-Steven Wright
Accomodations/Accountants/Attorneys/Automotive ACCOMMODATIONS Bed and Breakfasts PEARL’S RAINBOW
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ATTORNEYS Criminal Law LEA P KRAUSS, ESQ.
525 United Street Key West
800-749-6696 www.PearlsRainbow.com See Our Ad Page 12
600 S Andrews Ave, Suite 406 Fort Lauderdale
954-288-7447
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ACCOUNTANTS KEEP IT SIMPLE SOLUTIONS
ATTORNEYS Trademark Law MIRIAM RICHTER, ESQ
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AUTOMOTIVE - Repair CAR CLINIC
1401 N Dixie Highway Lake Worth
561-547-4700
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Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
~Peg Bracken
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Automotive
www.FlawlessAutoRepair.com
Automotive
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Did You Know? Electric cars were introduced in 1896 and by the end of the century almost 50% of motorcars worldwide were electric. Yet, by 1905 80% of cars were petrol driven and by 1920 the electric car was, well, almost history.
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Automotive/Bars/Bicycle
FLAWLESS AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR
1 W Linton Blvd Bay 20 Delray Beach
561-279-0779 www.FlawlessAutoRepair.com
IN AND OUT TIRE SHACK
1247 W Sunrise Blvd Fort Lauderdale
954-760-4779
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BARS AUTOMOTIVE - Tint TINT WORLD
2301 N Federal Highway Pompano Beach
954-784-8650
For more locations go to:
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AUTOMOTIVE Tires and Wheels DALES WHEELS AND TIRES
250 W Sunrise Blvd Fort Lauderdale
954-764-1582
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NEW MOON
2440 Wilton Drive Wilton Manors
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THE MANOR
2345 Wilton Drive Wilton Manors,
954-626-0082 www.TheManorComplex.com See Our Ad Page 46-47
BICYCLE SALES/SVC BICYCLE SPOT
5074 N Dixie Highway Oakland Park
954-772-4909
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Bicycle/Cleaners
BartonAndMillerCleaners.com
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CLEANERS BARTON & MILLER CLEANERS
2600 N Dixie Highway Wilton Manors
954-566-4314 BartonAndMillerCleaners.com See Our Ad Page 17 llll
CHIROPRACTIC A PLACE OF HEALTH
Dr. Donna Watson 2034 E Oakland Park Blvd Fort Lauderdale
954-568-9355 www.APlaceOfHealth.com See Our Ad Page 19
NATHANSON CHIROPRACTIC
409 S Dixie Highway Lake Worth, WPB
561-582-5433
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COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PC LAUDERDALE
Andy Harrison 279 E Oakland Park Blvd Oakland Park
954.636.3322
Andy@PCLauderdale.com
www.PCLauderdale.com
GRAPHIC DESIGN JOYA DESIGN
Alicia Polacek
954-829-9915
joyadesign@gmail.com See Our Ad Page 4
There are more than 100 million websites on the internet! Counting only domain name sites with content, Netcraft has tracked the growth of the internet since 1995 and says of the 100m, around 48 million are active sites that are updated regularly. When it began observing sites through the domain name system in 1995, there were 18,000.
Cleaners/Chiropractic/Computer/Graphic Design
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Hair Stylists
www.MichaelLeighSalon.com
www.thegirlmagazine.com
Hair Stylists - Health
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www.Source-Salon.com
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Hair Stylists HEALTH AND WELLNESS HAIR STYLISTS
MICHAEL LEIGH SALON
Michael Leigh 1155 N Federal Highway Fort Lauderdale
954-566-9557 www.MichaelLeighSalon.com See Our Ad Page 20
SOURCE SALON
1881 NE 26th St Wilton Manors
CENTER FOR WELLNESS
Sofia Johnson 4342 E Tradewinds Ave Lauderdale by the Sea
954-491-3103 www.WellnessFlorida.com See Our Ad Page 23
INDIGO SPICES
Supplements and More
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954-568-1998
SourceSalon@gmail.com
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VNL HAIR COLOR STUDIO
Jenny Sosa 1545 E Oakland Park Blvd Oakland Park
954-533-2977
www.VNLHairColorStudio.com See Our Ad Page 7
SKIN CARE BY ANGELINA
6246 N Federal Highway Fort Lauderdale
954-771-9797
See Our Ad Page 54
SOUTH FLORIDA THERMOGRAPHY
Claudia Barrington R.N. Certified Clinical Thermographer
954-422-8766 www.SFThermography.com See Our Ad Page 23
“A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don’t eat it.” -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
WHOLEFOOD FARMACY
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Hair Stylists/Health
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Insurance/Mental Health/Optical INSURANCE State Farm
MARY BROWN INSURANCE AGENCY
Mary Brown, Agent 7840 Glades Road, Suite 240 Boca Raton
877-426-1240
www.MaryBrownInsurance.com See Our Ad the Back Cover
MENTAL HEALTH Chemical Dependency Care PRIDE INSTITUTE
1601 E Las Olas Blvd Fort Lauderdale
800-547-7433 www.Pride-Institute.com See Our Ad Page 25
MENTAL HEALTH Psychotherapy JULIA FISCHETTO, MS, PA
Julia Fischetto 218 Commercial Blvd, Suite 201H Lauderdale by the Sea
954-491-9040
JFPsych218@aol.com
www.LivePerson.com/Julia-Fischetto
OPTICAL CHIC OPTIQUE
2228 Wilton Drive Wilton Manors
954-567-3937
ChicOptique@aol.com
www.ChicOptique.net See Our Ad Page 27
EXOTIC EYEWEAR OPTICAL
1626-B N Federal Highway Fort Lauderdale Healthy eyes are so sensitive to light that a candle burning in the dark can be detected one mile away. The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors; there currently is no machine that can achieve this remarkable feat.
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Mental Health/Optical
www.Pride-Institute.com
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www.Exotic-Eyewear.com
Optical
www.ChicOptique.net
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Pet PET Animal Hospital
ALL ABOARD ANIMAL HOSPITAL
1413 S Dixie Hwy E Pompano Beach
954-785-7780 www.AllAboardAnimal.com See Our Ad Page 29
PET Birds/Bird Supplies GOLDEN COCKATOO
360 S Powerline Road
954-725-0088 www.GoldenCockatoo.com See Our Ad Page 29
PET - Boarding CHATEAU POOCHIE
Amy Birkenes 4301 N Federal Highway Pompano Beach
954.561.8111
info@ChateauPoochie.com
www.ChateauPoochie.com See Our Ad Page 30
PETLOVER CENTRAL
7491 N Federal Highway Boca Raton
561-241-3977 www.PetLoverCentral.com See Our Ad Page 31
PET Boutique and Supplies ATLANTIC DOGGERY BOUTIQUE AND GROOMING
Scott Hamlin 2724 E Atlantic Blvd. Pompano Beach
954-784-3647
AtlanticDoggery@Bellsouth.net
www.AtlanticDoggery.com FIESTA PET DELI
Festival Flea Market Mall 2900 W Sample Road Pompano Beach
954-971-2500
www.FiestaPetDeli.com
www.PetHealthCafe.com See Our Ad Page 63
Own a pet related business? Don’t miss our bi annual Pet Directory!
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www.AllAboardAnimal.com
www.GoldenCockatoo.com
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PET NUMBERS DOG BEACHES Canine Beach Fort Lauderdale - 954.761.5346 Jupiter Beach - A1A & Xanadu Road Dog Beach Of Hollywood - www.dboh.org DOG PARKS (LEASHED) Birch State Park, Fort Lauderdale 954.564.4521 Esterlin Park, Oakland Park - 954.816.0799 John Prince Park, Lake Worth - 2700 6th Ave S Markham Park, Sunrise - 954.389.2000 Quiet Waters Park, Deerfield - 954.360.1315 South County Regional Park, Boca Raton - 561.966.6600 Treetops Park, Davie - 954.370.3750 DOG PARKS (OFF LEASH) Bark Park/Snyder Park, Fort Lauderdale 954.828.3647 Boca Raton Dog Park - 561.393.7821 Colohatchee Park, Wilton Manors Lake Ida Dog Park, Delray Beach 561.966.6664
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BIRD RESCUE Feline -N-Feathers - 954.943.5455 Lucky Parrot Sanctuary - www.LuckyParrot.org Safe Haven - www.SafeHavenFL.org CAT RESCUE Carlow Cats - 561.667.7779 Cats Exclusive - 954.975.8349 The Cat Network - 305.255.3482 CAT AND DOG RESCUE A Second Chance Rescue - 561.333.1100 Allen Babcock Rescue - 954.474.8198 Grateful Paws - 954.462.8840 Raining Cats and Dogs - 561.929.0759 Rescue, Rehab, Home - 561.241.3676 THPA - Info@thehomelesspetadvocates.com
www.ChateauPoochie.com
Pet
www.PetLoverCentral.com
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www.NoKillNation.org
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Pet
FINS, FURS, AND FEATHERS
1975 N Federal Highway Boca Raton
561-391-5858
See Our Ad Page 35
PAWS ON THE AVENUE
Caroline Clore 525 Lake Avenue Lake Worth
PET - Day Care CHATEAU POOCHIE
Amy Birkenes 4301 N Federal Highway Pompano Beach
954.561.8111
info@ChateauPoochie.com
www.ChateauPoochie.com See Our Ad Page 30
561-588-6533
Info@PawsOnTheAvenue.com
www.PawsOnTheAvenue.com
PET - Cat Care PET SITTERS AND MORE
Maryl Olsen - LOO Broward County
PET - Dog Walking PET SITTERS AND MORE
Maryl Olsen - LOO Broward County
954-894-1234
Info@PetSittersAndMore.com
www.PetSittersAndMore.com
954-894-1234
Info@PetSittersAndMore.com
www.PetSittersAndMore.com
Sitting on a branch overlooking the parking lot, the pigeons watched as a Mercedes pulled in below them. “What do you think?” one bird said to the other. “Should we put a deposit on that car?”
PET - Exotic Pet Care BIRD EXOTIC HOSPITAL
6147 Lake Worth Road Greenacres
561-964-2121 www.BirdExoticVet.com See Our Ad Page 35
Pet
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www.AlexandriasGrooming.com
There are more than 700 types of pure breed dogs. The common belief that dogs are color blind is false. Dogs can see color but it is not as vivid as we see; it is like our vision at twilight. Dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed.
www.PetGroomFtLauderdale.com
www.PetJunctionDirectory.com
Dog Grooming, Cat Grooming, Dog Rescue, Cat Rescue, No Kill Shelters, No Kill Organizations, Dog Sitting, Cat Sitting, Dog Walking, Pet Care
Pet
PET - Grooming ALEXANDRIA’S GROOMING
2032 E Oakland Park Blvd Fort Lauderdale
954-564-4141
www.AlexandriasGrooming.com See Our Ad Page 36
ATLANTIC DOGGERY BOUTIQUE AND GROOMING
Scott Hamlin 2724 E Atlantic Blvd. Pompano Beach
954-784-3647
AtlanticDoggery@Bellsouth.net
www.AtlanticDoggery.com
POSH PAWS AND CLAWS
3045 N. Federal Highway Suite 60F Fort Lauderdale
954-565-3343
info@PetGroomFtLauderdale.com www.PetGroomFtLauderdale.com See Our Ad Page 36
Own a pet related business? Don’t miss our bi annual Pet Directory!
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PET - Rescue NO KILL NATION
Debi Day P.O. Box 5209 Lighthouse Point Info@TheNoKillNation.org
www.TheNoKillNation.org See Our Ad Page 32-33
THE HOMELESS PET ADVOCATES
Debi Day P.O. Box 5209 Lighthouse Point
www.Facebook.com/ TheHomelessPetAdvocates See Our Ad Page 32-33
PET - Sitting ANGEL’S PET SITTING SERVICE
Jackie Treener
954-567-2639 AngelsPetSittingService.com FETCH PET CARE 561-202-9915 www.FetchPetCare.com See Our Ad Page 38
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Pet
www.FetchPetCare.com
www.PetJunctionDirectory.com
Pet
www.thegirlmagazine.com
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Pet/Physicians/Restaurants
PAMPERED PETS
Tommy LaFashia
954-547-8400
WeCareForYourPets@aol.com See Our Ad Page 38
PET SITTERS AND MORE
Maryl Olsen - LOO Broward County
REAL ESTATE - Agents THE INFANTE GROUP
Carla Infante
954-646-4775 www.InfanteGroup.com See Our Ad Page 42
954-894-1234
Info@PetSittersAndMore.com
www.PetSittersAndMore.com
RESTAURANTS GALANGA THAI KITCHEN
PHYSICIANS Gynecological, Obstetrical GREEN & URRIBARRI, LLC
3001 Coral Hills Drive Suite 360 Coral Springs
954-341-2916 www.GreenUrribarri.com See Our Ad Page 41
QUALITY GYNECOLOGY
Karen Bosia 1741 NW 123 Avenue Pembroke Pines 954-441-9595
2389 Wilton Drive Wilton Manors 954-202-0000
www.GalangaRestaurant.com See Our Ad Page 44
THE MANOR
2345 Wilton Drive Wilton Manors
954-626-0082 www.TheManorComplex.com See Our Ad Page 46-47
MAI KAI
3599 N Federal Highway Fort Lauderdale
954-563-3272 www.MaiKai.com See Our Ad Page 11
Physicians/Restaurants
www.GreenUrribarri.com
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www.InfanteGroup.com
www.thegirlmagazine.com
Restaurants
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Restaurants
www.GalangaRestaurant.com
Restaurants
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www.TheManorComplex.com
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Restaurants
MeltingPot.com
www.thegirlmagazine.com
Restaurants
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www.TropicsFTL.com
Restaurants /Scooters/Shoes/Skin Care/Windows THE MELTING POT
VARCITY CYCLE
1135 N Federal highway Fort Lauderdale 954-568-1581
2601 N Federal highway Fort Lauderdale
See Our Ad Page 48
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www.MeltingPot.com PRIMANTI BROS
516 E Oakland Park Blvd Wilton Manors
954-565-7100
See Our Ad Page 49
TROPICS
2000 Wilton Drive Wilton Manors
954-537-6000 www.TropicsFTL.com See Our Ad Page 50
SCOOTERS Sales and Service CYCLE IVAN’S
2831 Forest Hill Blvd WPB
561-588-2302
954-667-1500 www.VespaFortLauderdale.com
SHOES BIRKENSTOCK
3526 N Powerline Road Pompano Beach
954-590-2980
See Our Ad Page 54
SKIN CARE SKIN CARE BY ANGELINA
6246 N Federal Highway Fort Lauderdale
954-771-9797
See Our Ad Page 54
WINDOWS WINDOW SOLUTIONS
See Our Ad Page 52
Brian Tepper 610 NW 7th Ave Fort Lauderdale
Coming this fall...The Helm Boating Directory! Look for it.
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Go@CycleIvans.com
www.CycleIvans.com
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Scooters Sales and SVC
www.CycleIvans.com
www.thegirlmagazine.com
Scooters Sales and SVC
www.VarcityCycle.com
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www.PetJunctionDirectory.com
Windows
www.windowSolutions.net
www.thegirlmagazine.com
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FloEVENTS
REOCCURRING EVENTS
Music and Dancing Under the Stars Hollywood Beach Every Mon, Tue and Wed Clematis by Night Downtown WPB Every Thursday Night Jazz Fridays Waterfront Commons, WPB Third Friday of Each Month Saturday Nite Alive Fort Lauderdale Beach A1A June 4 - September 3 July Bank of America Starlight Musicals Fort Lauderdale’s Holiday Park Fridays throughout July Artwalk Downtown Hollywood Third Saturday Each Month SunTrust Sunday Jazz Brunch Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale First Sunday Each Month Florida Renaissance Festival and Crafts Village Quiet Waters Park Feb 12 - March 13
BY MONTH: March:
Women’s History Month March 1 - 31 Walk For the Animals Downtown Fort Lauderdale March 5 Las Olas Art Festival Las Olas Boulevard March 5 - 6 Feeding South Florida March for Hunger Hollywood Beach Broadwalk March 12 Fort Lauderdale St. Patrick’s Day Parade Huizenga Plaza March 12 Lauderdale by the Sea Craft Festival March 12 - 13 Pembroke Lakes Arts Festival Pembroke Pines City Hall March 12 - 13 BMW Tennis Championship Sunrise March 14 - 21 Fort Lauderdale Pridefest March 19 - 20 Spring Garden Festival Fort Lauderdale March 19 - 20
57 MS Walk - The Palm Beaches CityPlace WPB March 20 New Shanghai Circus Miramar Cultural Center March 20 Rod Stewart & Stevie Nicks BankAtlantic Center March 20 Opera International with the Russian National Symphony: Madam Butterfly Miramar Cultural Center March 22
Pride of the Palm Beaches Lake Worth March 26 - 27 Kathy Griffin Kravis Center, WPB March 29 Wicked, Broadway Broward Center for the Performing Arts March 30 - April 24 April: Annual Wine & Culinary Celebration Museum of Discovery and Science April 1
Palm Beach International Film Festival Boca Raton March 23 - 30
South Florida Ride for Kids® Starts at Quiet Waters Park April 3
Cirque Dreams Broadway Broward Center for the Performing Arts March 24
Riverwalk “Get Downtown” April 8
Disney on Ice: Let’s Celebrate BankAtlantic Center March 24 - 27
Gun & Knife Show War Memorial Auditorium April 9 - 10
Palm Beach International Boat Show West Palm Beach Waterfront March 24 - 27
TurtleFest 2011 Loggerhead Marinelife Center, Juno Beach April 9
Carnevale Italian Festival Delray Beach March 25 - 27
Delray Affair Street Festival Delray Beach April 15 - 17
South Florida Pet Expo Expo Center South Florida Fairgrounds WPB March 26
“Ladies, Let’s Go Fishing!” Fort Lauderdale Seminar Dania Beach April 15 - 17
58 Pompano Beach Seafood Festival April 15 - 17 Cirque Dreams Illumination Kravis Center WPB April 20 Fleet Week 2011 Port Everglades April 25 - 30 Sunfest Downtown WPB April 27 - May 1 Las Olas Wine and Food Festival Las Olas Boulevard April 28 - May 1 May: The Color Purple Kravis Center WPB May 10 - 15 Women’s Power Caucus Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six, Ft Laud. May 13 - 14 Home Design & Remodeling Show Broward County Convention Center May 27 - 30
July 4th Family Celebration Fort Lauderdale Beach Mamma Mia, Broadway Broward Center for the Performing Arts July 19 - 24 Cirque Du Soleil Alegria BankAtlantic Center July 20 - 31 October: Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival October 22 - November 11 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show October 27 - 31 November: Home Design & Remodeling Show: Broward County Convention Center November 11 - 13 Florida Cajun-Zydeco Festival CB Smith Park November 11 - 13
June:
Holiday Fantasy of Lights Tradewinds Park Mid-November - December
Stonewall Street Festival Wilton Manors June 19
Broward County Fair City Center in Pembroke Pines Nov 25 - Dec 6
July:
December:
59 Woodstock Arts & Crafts Festival Sunrise December 3 - 4
Ladies Annual Fish-Off Pompano Beach. Ladies Only tournament June 2 - 5
Winterfest Boat Parade Port Everglades North on the Intracoastal December 10
Lake Worth Fishing Tournament Lake Worth June 24 - 25
SOUTHEAST FLORIDA ANNUAL FISHING TOURNAMENTS:
Fort Lauderdale Billfish Tournament From three inlets: Miami, Ft. Lauderdale & Lake Worth November 17 - 20
Yamaha Contender Miami Billfish Tournament Miami Beach Marina March 31 - April 3 Fishin & Firehouse Chili Grand Slam Boynton Beach April 23 Pompano Beach Saltwater Circuit 3 Legs beginning with: Mercury/Sea Vee Saltwater Shootout May 5 - 8 Mercury/SeaVee Saltwater Slam June 9 - 12 Mercury/SeaVee Saltwater Showdown Aug 4 - 7 Sailfish Club’s Ladies’ Tournament Stuart May 6 - 7 Competition Tackle 2-Day Dolphin Dash Fort Lauderdale May 15 & 22 Pompano Beach Fishing Rodeo Pompano Beach May 18 - 21
ANNUAL UNITED STATES HOLIDAYS Day Light Savings Time Begins March 13 Saint Patrick’s Day March 17 Passover April 18 Easter Sunday April 24 Cinco de Mayo May 5 Mother’s Day May 8 Memorial Day May 30 Flag Day June 14 Father’s Day June 19 Independence Day July 4 Labor Day September 5 Constitution Day & Citizenship Day Observed September 16 Columbus Day (observed) October 10 Sweetest Day October 15 Halloween October 31 Daylight Savings Time Ends November 6 Election Day November 8 Veterans Day November 11 Thanksgiving Day November 24 Christmas Day December 25 New Year’s Eve December 31
D eclaration
of I ndependence
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. • He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most whole-
some and necessary for the public good. • He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. • He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. • He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. • He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. • He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. • He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. • He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. • He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. • He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. • He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. • He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. • He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
• For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: • For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: • For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: • For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: • For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: • For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: • For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies • For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: • For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. • He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. • He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. • He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. • He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. • He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only
by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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